On 6/7/05, Steven Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking to purchase a cheap entry level server. I plan to use it as a > webserver to host 2 postnuke sites and another download site which will get > about 1000 gig per month downloaded from it. 1000 GB isn't very much. > Price and expandibility are > very important. Below I mention a few that I have been looking at. Are there > any places around calgary where you can get cheap servers? What do you think > of the ones I mentioned below? Are they overkill or not enough? This is my > first time around with something like this so any opinions would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks. > > > So far the only place I've found cheap servers is dell. I've been looking at > the dells. > > The one I especially had my eye on was the > > PowerEdge SC1420 > --------------------------- > Intel(r) Xeon™ 2.80 GHz (another processesor can be added later on) > 2 40 gig sata drives (i'm going to use software raid 1) > 512MB, 400MHz, 2X256MB, SINGLE RANK > Onboard nic This is kind of what i use (Well almost the same) except for the hard drives, I use 2 80GB sata's My server's load average is normaly around 0.04 (currently 0.16), This is overkill unless you know you might get /.'ed or be in the news. A high server load (in my opinion) for this server would be around 4.00
> I liked this one (the sc1420,above) because later on I was thinking I might > need to drop another processor in there for more power. But it costs a few > hundred buck more. > > And another option I was looking at was the > > > PowerEdge SC420 > ------------------------------------------ > Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 2.80 GHz > 2 40 gig sata drives (i'm going to use software raid 1) > 512MB, 400MHz, 2X256MB, SINGLE RANK > Onboard nic This looks perfect for about a 1000GB pipe if you ask me, you'll have lots of processing power and a good price. If you wanted you could go with a slower cpu with a cheaper price and have lots to spare. With what your looking for i think you should go for as much memory as possible then worry about the power of the cpu. Travis R.
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